Re:From file-sharing to prison: A Megaupload programmer tell...
by coldtea on Friday June 24, 2016 @09:36PM
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>Of course most other countries are even worse but you'd think we would be more civilized.
You'd be surprised. Most western countries, for example, are far better.
And for all countries in general, including the most backwards ones, the overall system is quite better for their citizens, in the sense that the US is (by a large margin) the king of incarcerations. 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's inmates.
Then there's those medieval ideas like the "death penalty" which almost all the modern world has abandoned.
You'd be surprised. Most western countries, for example, are far better.
And for all countries in general, including the most backwards ones, the overall system is quite better for their citizens, in the sense that the US is (by a large margin) the king of incarcerations. 4% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's inmates.
Then there's those medieval ideas like the "death penalty" which almost all the modern world has abandoned.